# Bolding user names

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolding-user-names/535166>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 6, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolding-user-names/535166 "2010-04-06T17:06:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolding-user-names/535166/41 "2010-04-10T17:46:12Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> It’s been the convention as long as I’ve been posting here, which is coming up on eight years.

I remember it from when I first lurked, which would be over ten years now.

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